Category: Larger Editorials

A collection of all the “interesting” photos that I couldn’t fit anywhere else…   You might have heard Asians are bad drivers, well consider that stereotype absolute bullshit. I recorded a little chunk of time outside a typical street corner and was amazed at how pedestrians, bikes, scooters, cars, those weird vans that look like…

I’ll keep the description short since this is really just an excuse to show a handful of vacation pictures…I mean, uhhh…write an in-depth expose of Hong Kong’s scenic beauty. Yeah, that’s it…I’ll say that I wasn’t quite as big a fan of Hong Kong as Shanghai, but there was a lot less pollution and certainly…

I don’t agree with neo-cons about much (as is by now obvious to anyone who has ever visited the site, read an article title, or even glanced at the web address), but I do agree with them that the ruling Politburo in China aren’t very nice people. Of course, the right wing doesn’t really talk…

As a follow-up to the “editorial” I posted a few weeks back about Shanghai’s singular architecture, it’s finally time I make good on a promise to post more pictures from the trip. It’s not been easy to load the pictures onto the site for some reason, but I’m truly sorry it took this long. [The…

The first thing you notice about Shanghai is that it has an architectural style unlike any other city in the world. It’s as if the world’s biggest Blade Runner fan decided to plan an entire city around steampunk designs. Here are only a few examples…                    …

Who is this ambiguous “we” in the title of this post? Democrats? Liberals in general? Bloggers? New Yorkers/San Franciscans/urban dwellers on both coasts? How about all of the above? Democrats, liberals, liberal progressives, social liberals, whoever votes or has voted or will vote for a progressive cause in their lifetime desperately need to rediscover the…

Immediate Disclaimer about the headline of this article: 1. I do NOT like Mitt Romney, only that I think he would be a better president than Santorum (a man who has no equal in ignorance and hypocrisy). 2. I do NOT think Santorum would be a better president, merely a better candidate. To explain further:…

We’ve lost two icons of media in just as many weeks, but (sadly) the wrong one will leave the much bigger legacy on the pop cultural landscape. When you contrast two figures as stylistically and substantially different as Dick Clark (the New Year’s Eve countdown guy, the guy who paved the way for American Idol,…

The most popular punching bag of the last thirty years is the hyper-divisive beast known as “The Social Conservative.” This is the guy or gal who has inserted themselves as the “nay” vote in all of today’s most heated cultural wedge issues, and has fought against everything from gay Civil Rights to allowing women easier…

As pretty much everyone knows, this Friday’s Mega Millions drawing is at a record amount of 500 million dollars, or a “half a billion” if you want it to sound even more impressive. That’s not merely a lottery winning pot to make people salivate. No, that’s Tom Cruise money right there, and enough to buy,…

A quick refresher just for anyone who doesn’t spend all that much time thinking about Super-PACs or the Supreme Court: A few years ago, the five supreme court justices who are conservative (i.e. Republican, and generally do things that favor the Republican Party like stopping the recount of votes in Florida when Gore was within…

“Romney is the strongest to face Obama in the Fall, because he appeals the most to moderate voters.” This is a line of thinking so often repeated, that it’s just assumed as a given to be correct. I mean, surely the candidate who is most moderate would obviously appeal to independent voters, since, he’s in…